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Copy EPISODE 9 will focus on Future Cities. Our guest will be Jonathan Ward, a Design Partner at NBBJ, who is developing Chinese technology company TenCent’s Net City, in Shenzen China. At roughly the size and shape of Midtown Manhattan, Net City features a new Tencent office, a residential neighborhood, schools, retail and other amenities. The project focuses on sustainability, including photovoltaic panels on rooftops, sensors that track environmental performance and flooding, and a compreh...

Remember the Bond film Skyfall? Remember how "its villain was a not-so-thinly veiled portrait of Julian Assange?" Well, the new South Korean film on Netflix, Space Sweepers, also has a villain who is "not-so-thinly veiled." The character, a white man named James Sullivan (Richard Armitage), is the CEO of a corporation, UTS, that controls suburbs that orbit the earth. The company has big plans to relocate all of humanity to Mars, which it privately owns. UTS corporation dwarfs Tesla, the futu...

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IMAGE:  Left (top-bottom): SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow; SMU Associate Professor Humanities Orlando Woods. Right: SMU President and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences Lily... view more  Credit: Singapore Management University SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - For most of human history, populations across the world lived in low-density, rural settings. Over the past few centuries, however, this changed dramatically with th...

H.E. Dr. Thani Bin Ahmed Alzeyoudi The Annual Investment Meeting successfully launched Day 1 of AIM-EURASIA Digital Edition in collaboration with The Roscongress Foundation This benefited a multitude of sectors, especially in frontier and emerging markets, creation of solid partnerships, unlocked more investment opportunities, and better international collaboration,” — Mr. Dawood Al ShezawiDUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, March 3, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Annual Investment Meeting (AIM),...

An opportunity for renewal, recovery, rejuvenation At the breakout sessions, panelists share ground-breaking insights, new research data that can help grow businesses, and updates on new tools to support various initiatives. sponsored content Feb 24, 2021 Sustainable Brands 2021 Yokohama will take place on Feb. 24 and 25 at Pacifico Yokohama North in the city’s vibrant Minato Mirai area. As one of the largest domestic sustainability community events and the fifth of its kind to be he...

City reaches deal for redevelopment of Public Safety Building site Images courtesy of Capital City Partners) Months of negotiations have reached a proposed deal for a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Richmond’s city-owned Public Safety Building property. Ordinances and legal documents reflecting the negotiated deal between the city administration and developer Capital City Partners were formally introduced to the City Council at its meeting Monday evening. The deal will be reviewed in com...

Bucks, Montco students Zoom to moon, take top prizes in Future City competition Imagine living on the moon 100 years from now, watching "Moonstruck" while munching on moon pies.  Middle-school students from 30 educational institutions throughout the Delaware Valley got the chance recently to show just how they would not only survive but thrive that far from home and that far into the future. They participated in the 29th annual Future City competition.   Future City is an organization tha...

Copy Throughout history, religious reformers and visionary starchitects have attempted to envision the future of our cities: from the Venetian model city of Palmanova to the multi-story housing complex for 5,000 people drafted by Italian architect Paolo Soleri, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City to Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, numerous masterplans have been crafted to illustrate some of the most unprecedented ambitions. Two figures from The Radiant City that display Le Corbusier’s ...

by Stephen Chapman Bruntwood Scitech has seen its turnover rise 34.5% (£40.1m) over the last financial year. The owner of science and technology developments in Manchester, Liverpool and Alderley Park also saw its portfolio value increase to £526.8m (2019: £438.2m). However, while its gross profit has risen to £9.9m, it reported pre-tax losses of £7.6m (2019: £20.1m profit). “The UK’s science and technology sectors have been two bright spots amid the economic challenges of the pandemi...